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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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History of previous Global Search Terms

As soon as you click on one search result it will open the result in another tab. If you go back to the dashboard (global search widget), it will refresh and show a blank search screen. The search term/results should still show, otherwise you have...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Smart Document Understanding to produce a readable PDF from original scanned PDF

In solutions where text archives are digitized to become searchable in Watson Discovery, Smart Document Understanding is a promising new feature. However, it does not by side effect produce a searchable (text-based) PDF when OCRing a scanned PDF. ...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Prevent FastMap from stopping uploading at any error found on a record

The client would like to have a more quick and efficient way of massively uploading data. Actually Fastmap checks one by one all records to be uploaded, applying its out of the box controls, plus custom triggers controls and stopping every time it...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Extend Activity Tab to optionally include Session Tracing for example Read

Currently session tracing can be enabled that will track complete activities on an object including any access to an object page that a User makes. For clients that wish to record this and review access they must interrogate the generated logs. In...
12 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Add capability for Normalization from dictionaries

Add capability for Normalization from dictionaries. At the moment, normalization is done from a generic dictionary, and it is important for clients to have normalization done from their dictionaries.
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Screen scroll control when Waton is providing an answer

Sometimes, Watson's answers are very long. It will be extremely useful to be able to control de screen scroll display so the user could read the early responses from Watson's answers. Right now, if Watson is generating a very long answer and I wan...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Delete data from existing collection

Our signature client the Ministry of Defense likes to have the ability to delete all data from a collection. They are migrating from Watson Explorer Analytical Components (WEX-AC) to WD. In WEX-AC, the 'delete all data' from collection is present,...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Use visual recognition to analyze images in PDF's

When a user indexes a document there could be a large number of images that could have relevant information. As a user I would like to see those images added as metadata to the indexed document to make the WDS service smarter.
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Rich Text field Values to display in notification emails

It is useful to our users to have rich text fields as they do a lot of lists, tables and links. It would be beneficial if these field's values would copy over to the notification email template when calling the field via a variable. (i.e. [$group:...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

v2/scim/Users API endpoint to support filtering by active

It would be useful to be able to filter by active when pulling users back from the API. Currently we can pull back everyone (active: true and active:false) and loop through to filter out what we don't need, but it would be more efficient to only p...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review